Here’s the problem, conservatives.
Free markets do not . . . no . . . CANNOT exist anymore. Frankly, for anything.
How is this conservative? Because of QE. Quantitative Ease. It exposed money to be a meaningless concept that all of society is based on.
If you can create the measurement methodology from thin air in an entirely whimsical way, then all things you measure with it, like capitalism and markets in general, cannot mean anything.
And we certainly can’t build an ideology like “fiscal conservatism” around it.
Bernanke destroyed everything, and not just him. Global central bankers all worked in concert to be sure currencies didn’t collapse against one another. The ECB is doing a trillion Euros of QE right this moment.
So . . . remember this when you offer up “the free market” as a way to solve healthcare . . . or anything else. It’s all gone. It’s not coming back.
That only holds if you assume the free market can’t deal with inflation of a fiat currency or find a means outside of it to handle transactions. Gold and silver are available right now as a legal tender medium of exchange, gold is legal to stipulate as a contractual obligation and currency can be stipulated as lawful money of the US.
Large entities for the most part see benefit in the Federal Reserve system. Individuals and small businesses are the “grass” grazed upon that feeds it and grows it via inflation and other more visible taxes. Until the small players realize that the primary means of changing the system is through their elimination of debt and utilization of available alternative means of conducting transactions they’re going to continue to be fodder for the debt note fiat pushers.
The free market lets the unseen hand work, and the hand is much smarter than the elitists who want to control things centrally.
What you write about QE I think is true, but it does not have the effect you cite. The money manipulations by the elitists generally lift or lower ALL boats in the bodies of water they affect, bothering both free marketers and elitists. They steal money equally from both.
It is very bothersome, but it does not prevent a free market in our locality of these USA from being a very good thing.
Our body of water (these USA) can behave either more free market or more fascist (elitist/central control), and the results will be better and more just with free market, with individuals and families allocating their limited resources as they see best instead of as they are forced to do by central control.
Free market principles always work better unless they are targeted for failure by elitist laws, such as allowing health savings accounts but hamstringing them with distorted rules and regulations that prevent them from being used properly by the free market. Then they might seem not to work and the elitists love to point to the failures they themselves actually created to try to disparage the free market.
So we should not stop trying for free markets here, even if we cannot fix (presently) the money manipulations that make international free markets “impossible.”